I've observed this many times. Sometimes when im having a cold or congested nose , and i eat spicy food , it feels that the congestion reduces. what is the reason for this besides the fact that the ...

There is place in my house where I cut my nails. Here, there is an ant hole where an ant colony is seen.
Whenever I cut my nails from here, they take my nails inside their hole. I was wondering what ...

What is Meriva Phytosome Curcumin other than being a food supplement?
Is it a plant? A type of plant extract?
I googled it but still couldn't figure out exactly what it is.
The reason I'm asking is ...

I wanted to buy black tea at a pharmacy and the pharmacist told me that russian tea is actually black tea so I bought it instead.It's made out of theae folium leaves and for some reason I can't find ...

Recently, I learned that pandas have a carnivore's digestive system but that it exists almost exclusively as a herbivore. If pandas hunted would they be able to find meat in their environment? Can't ...

Can a person live with this alternative nutrition? Of course, assuming that eating pleasure is assumed the same.
The nutrients that contain are far better than average meal a person eats the majority ...

I have read that there are proteins in oat which are similar to those in soy, milk and eggs. I know nothing about biochemistry, and I'm struggling to decipher the info i find..
the closest Ive got to ...

Tea, Coffee, Beer, Coke etc…
I wonder if the benefit from amount of fluid we get from them is bigger or smaller then the handicap of dehydration. In other words it is worth to drink them if we want ...

For the long time I am trying to find out if the following is truth: They say that some beverages dehydrates. I heard that about tea (sometimes green, sometimes black, sometimes both), coffee, beer ...

Following this question regarding absorption in human oral cavity (sadly not yet fully answered), I'm curious if any nutrient absorption occurs during the descent of food through the esophagus.
And ...

For example, why do I love paprika while my girlfriend hates it? Why do I find broccoli disgusting and she adores it? As humans, there are things we'd all agree on being awful, like rotten meat, for ...

While grocery shopping I was thinking that we restrict ourselves in regard to which animals we eat. I surely don't want to eat spiders and ants, for example, but I know that this is just because of my ...

Many breeds of domestic dogs seem to like burying food, presumably in preparation for leaner times.
Assuming that dogs evolved from animals similar to the modern wolves through a mix of natural and ...

I was just eating a rather rare steak when I started wondering whether eating foods cooked was something I would instinctively want to do if the practice hadn't been taught to me.
So, is cooking food ...

I am currently writing a paper on irritable bowel syndrome, and I was wondering what the common diet of a patient with food-related IBS consists of. I've already begun discussing the pathogenesis of ...

I don't know what I am asking is silly or not, but I have always heard that eating a banana after a meal helps in digestion.
Some people says before food while others say after.
Is it a fact or some ...

There's definitely something I'm missing here.
Since calories is a unit of measurement for energy, and caffeine seemingly gives you a lot, how can the labels on caffeinated products have such a low ...

I have a large wooden cutting board which is used in kitchen mainly for preparing egg pasta. The wood type is Populus (poplar or aspen or cottonwood).
The main ingredients used with the cutting board ...

I was wondering how some animals (bulls, elephants etc.) become so large by only eating grass or plant based material and why some humans can build large amounts of muscle and mass without a proper ...

To specify, I mean plain corn-on-the-cob, not anything processed like corn flakes.
Since one of the main important functions of corn is that it's not digestible, and therefore helps with digestion by ...

I at times have many goats grazing in our locality. Recently a few cows were seen too. I just offered one of the cows a few leaves from Jasminum sambac plant growing in our garden. The cow smelled and ...